RIT++ is a professional festival for those who create the Internet. Just like at a music festival, we have many streams, but instead of musical genres, we focus on IT topics. As organizers, we strive to anticipate trends and find new sounds. This year’s theme is 'quality,' along with the QualityConf conference. We do not shy away from beloved themes in new interpretations: splitting monoliths and microservices, […]
Among the handheld devices from Psion, there are five models that do not require emulation since they operate on NEC V30 processors compatible with 8086, hence the name SIBO – sixteen bit organizer. These processors also have a compatibility mode with the 8080, which is understandably not used in these devices. At one time, Psion released proprietary […]
Yesterday, we published a collection of materials on Habr for those who would like to understand ITSM — to study trends and tools. Today, we continue to discuss how to integrate ITSM into a company's business processes and what cloud tools can assist with that. / PxHere / PD What does this mean for you? The traditional approach to managing IT departments is called 'resource management'. If […]
We are talking about the directions in which ITSM is developing in 2019. / Unsplash / Alessio Ferretti Chatbots Automation saves time, money, and human resources. One of the most promising areas of automation is technical support. Companies are implementing chatbots that take on part of the support specialists' workload — providing answers to the most frequently asked questions. Advanced systems can analyze customer behavior, […]
The transition to Windows 10 has allowed HP Inc. to increase revenue from computer sales in the corporate segment by 7 percent, and this factor will persist into the second half of the year. The shortage of Intel processors has hit the sales of low-cost laptops the hardest, but the company is now more focused on promoting premium products. The shortage of Intel processors may last until the end of July or September, […]
The Mozilla browser development team (Netscape Communicator 5.0) chose the GTK+ library as the primary development toolkit for XWindow, thus replacing the commercial Motif. The GTK+ library was created during the development of the GIMP graphics editor and is now used in the GNOME project (developing a free graphical environment for UNIX). Details at mozilla.org, MozillaZine. Source: linux.org.ru
A group of independent application developers for Linux wrote an open letter asking the Gnome community to stop using themes in their applications. The letter was addressed to the maintainers of distributions that embed their own GTK themes and icon sets, instead of the defaults. Many well-known distributions use their own themes and icon sets to give the system a cohesive style, highlight their brand, and provide users with a unique experience. […]
The Rust development team is pleased to announce a new version of its language: 1.35. Rust is a programming language that allows you to write reliable and efficient programs. If you already have Rust installed via rustup, you can update with the command: $ rustup update stable The main focus of this update is the implementation of the closure traits Fn, FnOnce, FnMut for Box, Box, Box, […]
The corrective release of the Linux kernel 5.1.5 fixed a problem in the DM (Device Mapper) subsystem that could lead to data corruption on SSD drives. The problem emerged after a change was added to the kernel in January this year, affecting only the 5.1 branch and predominantly manifesting on systems with Samsung SSDs that use data encryption with […]
A new ultra-fast magnetic levitation train, capable of reaching speeds up to 600 km/h, has moved a step closer to reality in China. On Thursday, the completion of the prototype assembly for the magnetic levitation vehicle was announced at a facility in Qingdao, a port city in Shandong province in eastern China. Created by the state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC), the largest in the world […]
Hello, %username%. While you’re tinkering with your device, we continue our discussion on beer, which we’ve partially covered here, a bit more here, but we’re still not stopping! I’m endlessly glad that I decided to stretch this into a series of articles because from the comments, I realized that many questions, which seemed minor at the very beginning, need to be […]
With the release of the new Ryzen 3000 processors built on the Zen 2 microarchitecture, AMD plans to conduct a comprehensive upgrade of its ecosystem. Although the new CPUs will maintain compatibility with the Socket AM4 socket, developers plan to introduce PCI Express 4.0, which will now be supported universally: not just by the processors, but also by the chipset. In other words, after the release […]